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G. NICHOLSON..

BAND PoR STRAPPING BOXES, BALBS, 6m.

Patented Apr. 7, 1885.

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NITE STATES ATENT Ormea.

vGRANVILLE NICHOLSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR CLARK, OF SAME PLACE.

To JOHN L.

BAND FOR sTRAPPlNG BOXES, BALEs, eze.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,438, dated April 7,1885.

` Application tiled February 24, 1855. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit k nownthat I, GRANVILLE NICHOLSON, of the city and county of NewYork, in the State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Bands for Strapping Boxes, Bales, 8:0., of which thefollowing is a specification.

Hoop -iron has most commonly been employed for strapping boxesheretofore; but there have also been employed wire bands, in which twowires are tightly twisted throughout the greater part of their length,but have at intervals eyes or holes formed by outward bends in the wire,and 'which receive the bodies and exclude the heads of nails or otherfastening devices.

The fastening-nails cannot be inserted elsewhere than at the eyes, andthese, being at definite and considerable distances apart, often comeopposite parts of a box not well adapted to receive nails, or, if usedas a baleband,such eyes do not always coincide in the two ends of theband so as to receive a rivet for connecting them. Such bands, beingmaden of tightly-twisted wires, are sti, and,if of large wire,considerable power is required to bend them around a box.

The object of my invention is to provide a wire band having provisionfor the insertion of fastening devices at any and every point in itslength, which is flexible and easily bent, and which will be verystrong, inasmuch` as the wires are not weakened by the disturbance ordistortion of their fibers resulting from the operation of twisting.

My invention consists in a band for strapping boxes and bales,consisting of wires braided together iiatwise, whereby there is produceda flat and broad band, which is flexible, and may be readily bent, andwhich has ranges of holes or interstices lapping on or extending pasteach otherV throughout the length of the band, and made of a size toreceive the bodies and exclude the heads of nails or other fasteningdevices.

The invention also consists in the combination, with a box or bale,of aband of the kind described bent around and secured thereto. The band mayhave applied to it any suitable rust-proof compound, which may bereadily Another most important advantage results j[` applied, or it maylbe tinned or galvanized, and if tinned or galvanized the wires will besoldered or secured at their points of inter- ,i section by the processof tinning or galvanizing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 l' represents aportion of a bandembodying my have fouror more. The several wires are a braided Atogether datwisa as y p. Fig. 1. Lhave here shown the band as havingthree wires only; but it might preferably of steel; but iron or otherwire may be employed for the purpose. produced will be broad or wide,and hence,

even whenmade of light wires,it will be very strong and still soflexible that it may be readily y bent around a box, and will lie iiatthereon.

from forming the band of braided wires. thereby form a band in whichthere are ranges of holes or interstices b, which lap on one an- Thebandthus f other or are practically continuous throughout the length ofthe band, and vwhich are of a size to receive the bodies and exclude theheads of nails or other fastening devices.

These ranges of holes or interstices provide for the insertion of nailsor other fastening devices at any conceivable `point in the wire whereit may be desirable to place them. For

example, in applying the band to a box, B,

made of thin boards or lumber, it will be advantageous to drive nailscinto the edges of the boards, and with this band holes or interstices ib are certain to come at these points without any care in adjusting orapplying the band. A nail c may therefore be driven into the corner ofthe box, and this result could not be secured where the band is providedwith eyes formed only at definite distances apart,

unless the band isspecially made for boxes of 95 that exact size. A

My band can be' applied to boxes o f any size, and the holesorinterstices will, without any adjustment of the band, be so arrangedthat nails may be driven for fastening itat roo edge of each board whichis presented at the any and every point desired. It will also be seenthat if this band be used for bales there will be no difficulty insecuring the ends together by a rivet or other fastening devices, asthere will always be holes in the two end portions, which will, withoutany adjustment of the band, be coincident with each other. This band maybe made in continuous length and sold in lengths of tive hundred feet(more or less) upon a spool or reel; or the bands may be supplied of anydefinite lengths desired,to be used without cutting.

I am aware that it is not new to make fence metal by braiding togetherwires and interlocking wire barbs therewith. An important object infelice metal is to produce a band or strip which is as large aspossible, in order that the same shall be clearly visible to stock, andfence metal which is composed of braided wires and interlocking barbscannot be successfully employed for banding boxes, because the braidingis so open that the heads of nails or other fastening devices will passdirectly Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is* A l. The band for strapping boxes and bales, consisting ofwires braided together atwise, and formed with ranges or rows of holesor interstices b, which lap on each other and are continuous throughoutthe length of the'band, and which are of a size to receive the bodiesand exclude the heads of nails or other fastening devices, substantiallyas herein described.

2. The combination, with a box or bale, of a band consisting of wiresbraided together tlatwise, and having ranges or rows of holes orinterstices which lap on each other throughout the length of the band,and fastening devices c, inserted through the holes or interstices b andsecuring the band to the box or bale, substantially as herein described.

3. The band for strapping boxes and bales, consisting ot' wires braidedtogether iiatwise, and having ranges or rows ot' holes or interstiees b,which lap on each other throughout the length of the band, and areadapted to re-l ceive the bodies and exclude the heads of fasteningdevices, the band being galvanized or tinned, whereby its wires aresecured together at their points of crossing, substantially as hereindescribed. Y

GRANVILLE NICHOLSON.

Vitnesses:

FREDK. HAYNns, MATTHEW PoLLooK.

